Occupy Oakland shuts down port
What began as a relatively peaceful day of demonstrations in Oakland on Wednesday ended in tear gas, rubber bullets and sound grenades being fired on occupiers. The Oakland Police Department arrested...
View ArticleVandals hijack Occupy Oakland protests
Thanks to a splinter group of protesters in Oakland last night, the news today is leading with imagery of burning barricades and headlines about property destruction.The Times notes that this was a...
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I saw a different side of Occupy Oakland
Tuesday night the wind was whipping around Oakland in an ominous way. Doors kept banging around in my apartment, and I fell asleep hoping nature wasn't setting things up for another difficult day. I...
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Cops link shooting to Occupy Oakland
SAN FRANCISCO -- Oakland police reported Sunday that the victim of a fatal shooting near the Occupy Oakland encampment on Thursday had been staying in the camp, as had one of the suspects in the crime,...
View ArticleReport from the Occupy Oakland raid
Have you ever spent time waiting for someone close to you to die? Then you know the feeling of being mired in an unknown void, where one doesn't know if it will be that weekend, that afternoon, that...
View ArticleACLU challenges Bay Area police drone plans
The sheriff of California's Alameda County announced this week that he is considering the use of unmanned drones for domestic policing. Sheriff Greg Ahern, whose policing purview includes Oakland and...
View ArticlePicket line blocks Port of Oakland activity
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Custodial and maintenance workers picketed Tuesday at one of the nation's busiest ports, blocking trucks from picking up and delivering goods on what had been expected to be a...
View ArticleReport: Oakland cops pointed guns at sleeping baby
According to an independent report investigating Oakland police misconduct, two cops pointed their guns at a sleeping 1-year-old while investigating a misdemeanor crime.The incident was flagged by...
View ArticleOakland police kept man on Most Wanted list for nothing
Chau Van was surprised to hear that he was one of Oakland's "most wanted" criminals last year -- after all, there wasn't even a warrant out for his arrest. According to Courthouse News, "Oakland Police...
View ArticleBART strike snarls traffic for second straight day
San Francisco Bay area commuters endured another tough morning commute on Tuesday, as a strike by workers for a heavily used train system entered its second day.Hundreds of thousands of commuters who...
View ArticlePick of the week: A buzzy new film tackles race in America
Fruitvale Station is the name of a nondescript commuter rail station in a working-class neighborhood of Oakland, Calif., near the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. (In my teen years I lived not far...
View ArticleWhen Batman isn’t available: Crowd-fund
Paul Liu, a resident of Oakland, Calif., was frustrated at the city government's inability to tackle rising crime in his neighborhood. An economist who works for Google, Liu proceeded to do what must...
View ArticleNew program sees big data used for local policing
A new initiative in Oakland -- funded by federal dollars -- will see the merging of big data into local policing; yet another tentacle of the every expanding surveillance state, running roughshod over...
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Student loan debt more crippling than ever
A new report released Wednesday by the Institute for College Access and Success, an Oakland, Calif.-based research group, finds that 71 percent of students who earned a bachelor’s degree at an...
View ArticleOakland police kept man on Most Wanted list for nothing
Chau Van was surprised to hear that he was one of Oakland's "most wanted" criminals last year -- after all, there wasn't even a warrant out for his arrest. According to Courthouse News, "Oakland Police...
View ArticleBART strike snarls traffic for second straight day
San Francisco Bay area commuters endured another tough morning commute on Tuesday, as a strike by workers for a heavily used train system entered its second day.Hundreds of thousands of commuters who...
View ArticlePick of the week: A buzzy new film tackles race in America
Fruitvale Station is the name of a nondescript commuter rail station in a working-class neighborhood of Oakland, Calif., near the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. (In my teen years I lived not far...
View ArticleWhen Batman isn’t available: Crowd-fund
Paul Liu, a resident of Oakland, Calif., was frustrated at the city government's inability to tackle rising crime in his neighborhood. An economist who works for Google, Liu proceeded to do what must...
View ArticleNew program sees big data used for local policing
A new initiative in Oakland -- funded by federal dollars -- will see the merging of big data into local policing; yet another tentacle of the every expanding surveillance state, running roughshod over...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Student loan debt more crippling than ever
A new report released Wednesday by the Institute for College Access and Success, an Oakland, Calif.-based research group, finds that 71 percent of students who earned a bachelor’s degree at an...
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